Dr David Junior Gilbert

Dr David Junior Gilbert is a Chartered Psychologist and University Fellow in the School of Health and Society. Gilbert’s research is focused on investigating the vulnerabilities of individuals with FASD to, and within the justice system. Some of the vulnerabilities Gilbert researches include interrogative suggestibility, acquiescence, compliance, and confabulation in the FASD population. Gilbert (as he prefers to be called) is a formally trained Criminal Expert Witness and serves as an expert witness to courts for individuals with FASD facing criminal proceedings in the United Kingdom. He has received specialist training and certification in UK criminal law and proceedings, cross-examination, court report writing, and courtroom skills in addition to certification in Forensic Test Use. Gilbert has received several awards within and outside the UK for his research/presentation of his research work. Amongst others, his PhD research received the Professor Lindsey Dugdill Memorial Award for Outstanding Doctoral Studies 2023/24. He is a member of the academic network of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS), Society for Evidence Based policing, Neurodivergence in the Criminal Justice Network, and SalfordFASD research group. Gilbert is passionate about increasing the knowledge, understanding and awareness surrounding the vulnerabilities of individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) to, and within criminal justice system (CJS) encounters.

Experience in providing expert witness reports for cases involving individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

PhD in Psychology and Public Health